returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. and a major victory for trump, a third party attorney outside of government will soon be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials that could be protected by attorney client or executive privilege. while it does delay things and slow down, which of course is bad for doj in their case, i think, at the end of the day, we are not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. a judge pointing out some of the seized materials include taxes and accounting information. the ruling, allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security damage assessment, but halting the justice department criminal review of its mar-a-lago home. i don t think it has a massive impact in the investigation in the long run. if i were the prosecutor working on this case, i d say, let s just trench forward with a special master, to g
there s something there in part of it that i think can withstand scrutiny. by and large, i think you point to one of the huge problems behind this order, which is the idea we have to treat the former president as if he was above the law, as if he is entitled to special solicitude. she waxes poetic about the need for fairness and integrity, and she worries out loud about the stigma that could attached to the former president. that stigma is the same one that could attached to anybody who is part of a criminal investigation this way. taken to its logical conclusion, we should fail to continue criminal investigations because a stigma might attach. there s so many parts of this where, i think, the department of justice has to appeal because you don t want this type of language to stand as legal precedent. judge ellington was a trump appointee, so to the former foreign jewel bar, he was asked about the need for a special master,
A significant, if little known, piece of British-Chinese heritage disappeared from the map recently in central London. I had noticed some time back, prior to the pandemic, that there had been rather a lot of major clearance on the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Denman Street. Walking across Piccadilly Circus this week i noticed that the entire triangular block bordered by Shaftesbury Avenue, Denman Street and the pedestrianised Glasshouse Street, which runs northwest off Piccadilly Circus has been cleared for a new development. This is part of the general (and sadly ongoing) gutting and destruction of Soho between Shaftesbury Avenue, Charing Cross Road, Regent Street and Oxford Street that has been continuing for some years now causing destruction and heritage loss as far as over Charing Cross Road in Denmark Street (once London’s Little Tokyo).